After
a few hours of sleep after my night watch, I wake up to squicking and laughter
up in the cockpit. A squid just landed on deck! I tumble out of bed, as the
others are all excited and wanting to use it as bate for fishing, and hey, we
should take a picture of it and holy guacemoly, what to do first! Until a few
seconds later, all of a sudden it’s gone. Did it jump? Did a wave take it?
Nobody has a clue, because everyone was too excited about the squid to actually
pay attention to it. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
The
temperature is great, but the wind has settled quite a bit, compared to
yesterday. It’s now coming from the East, so we set up the spinnaker-pole to
keep our speed up. While we set this up, we have another visitor on board. Just
the smallest bird I have probably ever seen, sitting on our Hydrovane, just
hanging out. But when it heads for the opening down to the galley, we
unfortunately have to wave it off and scare it away. Caserole is in the making
(by Reidun) down there, and we don’t have enough to share!
What
had been a great day on board LEA, turned out to become a very tough night.
Around midnight we received a call through the satellite phone from our family
at home, who are taking care of our dog, Latisha. She has had a serious
heart-failure and is very sick. This breaks our hearts as we are a long way from
home, and can’t be there for her when she needs us most. She is without doubt
the world’s best dog, who we love very, very much. With a heavy heart, we decide
to put her down, to take her out of her misery. An unfair and heavy decision to
make, but the right one. With Latisha in our hearts, we all sit together,
sharing tears and tissue-paper, while we let LEA take on the steering through
the rest of the night.
-Lene